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September 6, 2017

48% Favor Continuing ‘Dreamers’ Program To Shield Illegal Immigrants

Voters are less convinced that illegal immigrants take jobs away from Americans and tend to favor the continuation of an Obama-era program that protects from deportation illegal immigrants who came here as children.

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September 6, 2017

There Is No Such Thing As a 'Deserving DREAMer' By Michelle Malkin

Over and over again, from the mouths of politicians in both parties, identity politics purveyors and cheap labor lobbyists, we hear the same refrains about President Obama's 800,000 amnestied illegal alien youths:   

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September 6, 2017

Trump Schools Obama on U.S. Constitution By Charles Hurt

Everyone knows that former President Barack Obama, our Great American Constitutional Law Professor, got mercilessly schooled by the Supreme Court during his eight years in office. Now he is getting schooled by a brash-talking, orange-haired reality-TV star and real-estate developer from Queens.

September 6, 2017

More See Government As A Problem Than A Solution

President Ronald Reagan said in his first inaugural address in 1981 that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Voters still agree and hope Congress and the president don't blunt the cutting knife.

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September 6, 2017

Seeing Alternatives By John Stossel

I just got new glasses -- without going to an optometrist.

September 5, 2017

Most Say FBI Should Make Clinton Files Public

Most voters still think Hillary Clinton is likely to have broken the law in her handling of classified information and disagree with the FBI’s decision to keep secret its files on last year’s Clinton probe.

September 5, 2017

Trump’s Full-Month Approval Continues to Slide in August

When tracking President Trump’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture.

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September 5, 2017

Should Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear? By Patrick J. Buchanan

By setting off a 100-kiloton bomb, after firing a missile over Japan, Kim Jong Un has gotten the world's attention.

September 4, 2017

32% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-two percent (32%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending August 31.

September 4, 2017

For Most, Labor Day Says Summer’s Over

Americans don’t attach a lot of importance to Labor Day, although just over half think it signals the end of summer.

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September 2, 2017

Progressive, Heal Thyself By Ted Rall

Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years.

September 2, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 1, 2017

Rolling off a tumultuous news week, Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas and Louisiana dropping record rains in the continental United States and causing widespread flooding, the effects of which will be felt across the South and up the Atlantic coast for months.

September 1, 2017

Most Now Think Feds Should Finance Weather Disaster Clean-Up

The Houston area is reeling after being hit by Hurricane Harvey earlier this week, but more voters than ever now think the clean-up and recovery efforts in situations like these should be the federal government’s responsibility.

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September 1, 2017

Time to Drop Colleges' Racial Quotas and Preferences By Michael Barone

When a policy has been vigorously followed by venerable institutions for more than a generation without getting any closer to producing the desired results, perhaps there is some problem with the goal.   

September 1, 2017

Voters Glued to Local Stations, Internet for Weather News

As Hurricane Harvey continues to wreak havoc on Texas, most Americans are following the news intently, and many are doing so through their local television news station.

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September 1, 2017

What Harvey Wrought By Patrick J. Buchanan

Like 9/11, Hurricane Harvey brought us together.

In awe at the destruction 50 inches of rain did to East Texas and our fourth-largest city and in admiration as cable television showed countless hours of Texans humanely and heroically rescuing and aiding fellow Texans in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

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August 31, 2017

Voters Think FEMA, Feds Doing Good Job With Harvey Response

Hurricane Harvey has devastated the Houston, Texas area, with more still to come. But voters are happy with the emergency response so far.

August 31, 2017

GOP Voters OK With Trump Criticism of Republican Senate

Republican voters approve of President Trump’s criticism of GOP senators. Democrats don’t.

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August 31, 2017

The Politics Of Disasters By Kyle Kondik and Geoffery Skelley

Throughout the first 200-plus days of Donald Trump’s presidency, it’s been common for analysts to say he is struggling through sub-40% approval ratings despite not having to reckon with a major non-scandal crisis. Whether that was true before last weekend is debatable -- do North Korea’s provocations count? -- but it’s almost certainly not true now after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston and southeast Texas.

August 30, 2017

Kaepernick Hiring Has No Impact on NFL Viewing Habits

Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still not currently signed to any professional team as the football season gets under way. But whether he is signed to a team this season will have little impact on Americans tuning in for NFL games.